Places Ronja Wants to Go

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.